Film Quotes

When I see a good film, it's like a whiplash. I run away, in order not to be influenced. Thus, the films I liked most are those I think least about.

I believe in the autobiographical concept only to the degree that I am able to put onto film all that's passing through my head at the moment of shooting.

It's only human and natural that an actor should see the film in terms of his own part, but I, as a director, have to see the film as a whole. He must therefore collaborate selflessly, totally.

My films always leave me unsatisfied, since I've always worked under fairly disastrous conditions economically.

For whatever reason, every project I do becomes sort of a cult, or a cultish show, you know, like 'Battlestar,' or even a film I did years ago, 'Kalifornia,' people refer to it as a cult film.

I find that in preparation for a drama you can do a lot of character work and develop the character and know what you want to achieve and project throughout the course of the film.

The possibilities are endless for me - Broadway, TV, music and film.

I really don't see myself being apart from music. I like doing lots of different things. I've been involved in film for quite a long time and I just like doing film.

To see the films coming out of France is to break into a vast treasure and become liberated.

The film The Last Temptation of Christ, no matter what its defenders say, was a slap in the face to Christians everywhere.

I started to shortcircuit because I had high aspirations for the film. I never told anybody that.

I would not like to have a homogeneous type of film. I wanted to go to many different kinds of ways of making cinema and telling stories and watching the country.

My job is just to make the films and then I don't have any strategy.

I think that there's a very lucid side in cinema: entering a theater and seeing the film.

I like films that are so funny, dramatic and lifelike simultaneously, that you are laughing and cringing simultaneously all throughout the film.

You would be surprised of films that people just don't see. You know what I mean? I'm always working and I'm a film buff but I'm an old school film buff.

Films take up so much time, and with theatre, you do have to plan a period of time that you can be free.

I've held onto little musical sketches that I thought could be useful, and the more time that I spend doing them for each film, then the more I have to draw on.

The main problem is that the Hollywood system has already made the film before the director shoots a single frame.

My job apart from anything else is to build an ensemble composed of actors who all come from a secure place so that they can all work together to make the film.

I don't know what the character is going to be. We sit down and we create a character, and all of the characters in all of my films are made like that.

The reason my films work is because every actor on set is very secure. They're able to fly.

People have been very resistant to giving me more than the standard amount of money. So I keep making films on a similar scale. Which is fine, but also frustrating.

Films are made all over the world all the time and only a thin slice of that product is Hollywood.

I'm developing the stuff all the time. There's a film in my head. I'm imagining a film.

I've walked out of films. But for every film I've ever walked out of, I've probably walked out of 500 plays.

You will find hardly any improvising on camera anywhere in my films. It's very structured, but it's all worked out from elaborate improvisations over a long period, as you know.

But actually I make films that I think are extremely sophisticated and cinematic.

I pretty much believe that a film is a film and when an audience watches a film, they finish it.

Film is endlessly just beyond your reach. I think that's what I love so much about it.

When I graduated from high school, I got accepted to York University, Fine Arts film program.

I love pre-code movies. Some of my favorites are movies with Warren William and there is an MGM film called "Skyscraper Souls" which is the best Warner Brothers movie that MGM ever made.

Women get scrutinized all the time for the way they look. So if I can learn to deal with that, then I do believe I can learn to deal with people's criticisms of my film choices.

I think I might do an animated film next. I'm serious.

Making a film is like learning the ropes all over again.

When you finish a film, before the first paying audience sees it, you don't have any idea. You don't know if you made a success or a flop, when it comes to the box office.

Communists love to make films about composers, because composers compose music and don't talk subversive things.

I think everybody dreamt somehow to make a film in Hollywood, you know.

I met John when I was 18 and I was in my first John Waters film when I was 19.

Never take no for answer, and try to make films that turn you on.

It's on the bucket list for sure to do a comedy film, even if it was just one line on the lot.

I'm not a cinephile. My films don't reference films. I'm more interested in rhythm and feeling.

I don't think I'm more of a screenwriter than I am a fiction writer. I'm more of a reader than a film-watcher, so I imagine that I'm not approaching fiction or films in a particularly cinematic way.

Everyone says you should get a photo taken of yourself while you're pregnant. I've got a film [War of the Worlds]. It'll be nice for my daughter, too, to look at one day. She was in it.

I think film likes me better than the theatre does for some reason.

My family is not at all involved in television, or film, or theatre, or any of it, really.

There's a lot that you can do in television that you can't do with a film, theoretically. At the time, the only possibility was to do a movie.

I would like to produce films, but I feel I am an unsuccessful producer. Thats the fact.

You cant expect a man to change in one day by watching a film, right?

Pakistan now is like a horror film franchise. You know, it's 'Friday the 13th, Episode 63: The Terrorist from Pakistan.' And each time we hear of Pakistan it's in that context.